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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1873
Page
5
Very cheap easy terms offer a nine room frame house with well cistern barn and fruit trees on a corner lot at Scott and Grand streets. See under signed Gro Exxtorr date 17 42 45.
Freeport on January 1 1878 issues a dissolution notice demanding payment obligations be fulfilled. The brief notice directs settlement of all outstanding balances to finalize the dissolution action.
Broad maintains the area's biggest stock of photo graphic albums at low prices, with prices and stock noted as 17 42 27. The listing emphasizes breadth and affordability for customers seeking album collections.
Over the past week readers contributed varied amounts to Freeport Jovana. List includes M McCreary 100, Cyrus Richart 200, J Gunsaul 300, Henry W Diemer 200, Peter Dellinger 200, J Gibbons 3200, JB Gates 315, and many others with payments mostly ranging from 20 to 400. Also note a bookstore ad for good writing paper at Broad's and a talk by Dr. Fowler at Wilcoxon Opera House Friday evening titled The Coming Woman.
The advertisement touts W. A. Batchelor's Hair Dye as harmless fast acting hair color in black or natural brown. It claims no skin staining, a clean soft result, and universal druggist availability with factory address at 16 Bond Street New Orleans.
A Stephenson Street music store clerk denounces the Oriole Waltz as the poorest piece he has ever seen. The author, a woman, reveals herself and the clerk apologizes, then promises greater care in the future. Georgia makes Robert E. Lee birthday a legal holiday, a move critics deem miscalculated. Taura Fair’s Sacramento lecture on Wolven in the Fold fails to draw paying crowds at a lager hall.
Broad's Book Store stocks high quality Blank Books. The notice highlights product quality and availability in the local shop.
The Vogel and Hughes Organs are praised as the sweetest toned most powerful durable and handsome cabinets with the lowest price. A price list is offered and visitors are invited to inspect them. Norwich Conn Pelton Pomeroy freeport Illinois named as agents for Northwestern States. Senator Sumner remains in serious condition with medical attendants constantly present and sleep via sub cutaneous morphine injections.
Over the past week Clerk Thompson issued marriage licenses to Patrick F Malone Anna Grey William W Deisher Adalaide Simms George Weeber Lydia Ann Long William Hunter Lucy H Wutchinson James Askey Hattie J Yarger Edward E Babcock Sarah Webster. A Photographic Album at Broad's priced 75 cents. 17-42-32.
Rock Grove School reports for the past month show 76 pupils enrolled with an average daily attendance of 55.2 and an attendance rate of 92 percent. The number of absentees is 45, with 12 half days missed and 13 pupils neither absent nor tardy.
Local notices advertise Methodist revival meetings in South Rockford and shop specials at Staver Snyder's Sign of the Big Boot. New and good Joots and Shoes offered by Neff & Babcock with remedies for chilblains and frosted feet, including 50 cent bargains on "Arette Cure."
A Teachers Institute will be held in Orangville on Saturday February 1. Teachers in the northern part of the county are urged to be present. Friends of education are invited to meet with us I. PF Koeckner, Co Supr.
The Hon. Jas. Taggart and the Hon. K. L. Cronkrite came home during the week's recess of the Legislature.
A large Freeport gathering on January 25 elected J Pattison as chairman and J S McCall as secretary to organize a Citizens' Reunion similar to the New Yorkers' event. A February 14 date at the Brewster House was set with committees named for Tickets and Carriages Invitations Arrangements and Toasts and Speeches. The next meeting was scheduled for February 8 with J S McCann as secretary.
A Saturday evening blaze started in Mr J B Taylors tannery but was quickly fought by local firemen. The engine crew kept pipes from freezing with a precautionary fire in the engine stove. The fire was contained with no major damage.
The event will be held at the Yellow Creek School House 19 miles west of Freeport on Saturday February 8 1873. Attendees should bring their dinners. All interested in educational matters are invited. Superintendent P Kiroxna Co.
Rail notices list passenger and freight departures from Freeport toward Chicago St Louis and west, with times for Sundays Mondays and Saturdays. Several lines show connections at Rock Island and St Louis, plus routes to Galesburg Burlington Quincy and Omaha.
An advertisement announces a drastic sale to reduce stock before inventory, offering all winter clothing regardless of cost. It also promotes Mexican Evercore Bitters as a blood cleanser claimed to cure numerous ailments despite containing no alcohol.
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